Qırım

Crimean Tatar

Alternative forms

Къырым (Cyrillic)

Etymology

Recorded as قریم (q[i]rīm /⁠qïrïm⁠/) in literary Chagatai.

Further long disputed and uncertain, some possibilities are:

A corruption of the source of Cimmerian (Latin Cimmerium)
From the old Turkic word *qurum (“protection, defense”)
From Ancient Greek κρημνοί (krēmnoí, “cliffs”), mentioned by Herodotus, from κρημνός (krēmnós, “trench's edge”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /qɯ.rɯm/
Hyphenation: Qı‧rım

Proper noun

Qırım

Crimea (peninsula)
Qırım Hanlığı ― the Crimean Khanate

Declension

Declension of Qırım

nominative	Qırım
genitive	Qırımnıñ
dative	Qırımğa
accusative	Qırımnı
locative	Qırımda
ablative	Qırımdan

Descendants

→ Italian: Crimea
- → English: Crimea
→ Russian: Крым (Krym)
→ Ukrainian: Крим (Krym)

References

Cimmerium in Encyclopedia Britannica 4th edition (1810). Alexander MacBean, Samuel Johnson, Cimmerium in A Dictionary of Ancient Geography (1773).
George Vernadsky, Michael Karpovich, A History of Russia, Yale University Press, 1952, p. 53.
Herodotus, The Histories, Book 4, chapter 20

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